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  1. Re:You can't have your cake and eat it too... by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Customers Question Tech Industry's Takeover Spree

    The big exception to this has been the United States since 1980. Anyone complaining about excessive taxation or regulation today ought to read up on what US law looked like in 1960 or so.

    Anyone who complains the USA doesn't have enough taxation and regulation needs to read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The one problem with the era it was written in was slavery.

    Falcon

  2. libertarianism by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service?

    However you want to try to cut it we've TRIED libertarianism before. It doesn't work. It cannot work in a modern society.

    And when was this? The latest the US has come close to libertarianism was when Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in 1831. It has gone downhill since, with corporations gaining more and more power among other things.

    Falcon

  3. libertarianism by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service?

    However you want to try to cut it we've TRIED libertarianism before. It doesn't work. It cannot work in a modern society.

    And when was this? The latest the US has come close to libertarianism was when Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in 1831. It has gone downhill since, with corporations gaining more and more power among other things.

    Falcon

  4. libertarianism by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service?

    However you want to try to cut it we've TRIED libertarianism before. It doesn't work. It cannot work in a modern society.

    And when was this? The latest the US has come close to libertarianism was when Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in 1831. It has gone downhill since, with corporations gaining more and more power among other things.

    Falcon

  5. libertarianism by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service?

    However you want to try to cut it we've TRIED libertarianism before. It doesn't work. It cannot work in a modern society.

    And when was this? The latest the US has come close to libertarianism was when Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in 1831. It has gone downhill since, with corporations gaining more and more power.

    Falcon

  6. Re:your vote, your responcibility. by Bull+SR · · Score: 3, Informative · on CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy
    (writings of a French author.. agh what was his name.. starts with a T.. wrote a book about US politics in the 1840's...).

    Alexis de Tocqueville
    http://www.tocqueville.org/chap1.htm
  7. Alexis de Tocqueville's _Democracy in America_ by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying

    Now Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" is one book I would require to be read in hs. People need to see the America Alexis saw.

    Falcon
  8. Re:It's not about rights by bladernr · · Score: 0 · on Why The Net Should Stay Neutral
    Communication with others and the media is a fundamental property of civilisation. The government should fund it.

    That falicy is that the government is able to fund anything : it isn't. It is only able to take from one group of citizens (consumers, shareholders, income-earners, whoever) and give to another group (government employees, contractors, suppliers). There is no "free" and there is no "government funded". There is only "government-coerced-from-one-person-and-given-to-a nother".

    I don't know where this quote same from, but "The American Republic will ensure until politicians realise they can bribe the people with their own money." (no, not Tocqueville). How much longer does the American Republic have to endure?

  9. Spurious quotations by stiber · · Score: 1 · on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase
    America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
    According to this link, this spurious quotation has an interesting history. Doesn't mean it isn't applicable to world events.